According to the Yale Center for Climate Communication, 69 percent of Americans believe that global warming is happening, and only 52 percent believe that it is caused by human activities. One of the problems of communicating climate change is the complexity of the problem. The climate is a complex system driven by many factors, and trends…

The news about climate change hasn’t been good recently. Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement in June 2017,[i] an iceberg the size of Delaware broke off of Antarctica in July,[ii] and a recent article in New York Magazine paints the picture of an uninhabitable planet plagued by famine, war, and economic collapse…

The following is a talk I gave at the New York State Sustainability Conference which draws from several articles I’ve written on this topic, with a new introduction. The day after the Trump Inauguration, people from all over the world participated in the largest public demonstration for civil rights that has ever taken place in…

During his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump said that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese, he intends to remove barriers to drilling and fracking, and pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. In addition, Republicans have majorities in the House and Senate, which will make passing progressive environmental legislation very…

Congratulations! You have been hired as ABC University’s sustainability manager. Your job description includes developing new initiatives to save energy, water and resources, conducting education and outreach on environmental issues, and coordinating with other departments on sustainability programming. Very likely, you have no one reporting to you and no colleagues in the same department. Also…

I have become a different kind of environmentalist lately. First, I read Naomi Klein’s sobering and erudite This Changes Everything, where she basically says we need nothing short of an overhaul of the entire capitalist system to save ourselves from climate catastrophe. Then there was Michael Maniotes’ article “Plant a Tree, Ride a Bike, Save…